THE MINISTRY OF THE FLAMING SWORD - …

1 THE MINISTRY OF THE FLAMING SWORDA Sermon By Smith WigglesworthFrom "Redemption Tidings" - Volume VIII, Number 3 - Edited by John CarverThis glorious inworking of Holy Ghost power is preparing us for rapture. Ourgreatest theme, the glory of the splendor of our Lord. His face! His tenderness! Hissweetness! Making our hearts long to be forever with the Lord. Amen! So let it be!Romans 8:35-39. "What shall we say to these things. If God be for us, who can beagainst us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

2 Shall tribulation, or distress, orpersecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or SWORD ? Nay, in all these things we are more thanconquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels,nor principalities, nor powers nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor anyother creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord."Oh the joy of the thought of it! What shall separate us from the love of Christ?A place of confidence, assurance, and rest, where God has perfect control over allhuman weakness.

3 You stand as on the mount of transfiguration manifested andglorified as in the presence of God, able to say, I know all things are working togetherfor good within me, silently destroying all that can be destroyed that He might havepreeminence in the body. If God be for us who can be against us?God is bringing forth a new creation; the Sons of God are to be manifested,and we must see our inheritance in the Holy Ghost. Nothing can separate us! Whatis it God wants us to know? Right in our earthly temple God has brought forth a Sonwith power, with manifestation, with grace, crowned already in the earth, crownedwith glory.

4 (John 17:22). "The glory which Thou has given me I have given them, that they maybe one even as we are." The Spirit of the Lord is showing me that God must get apeople who can see that from before the foundation of the world He has had them inHis has been delivering us through all of our difficulties. Where sin aboundedHe has brought in His grace. Where disease came in to steal our lives, God's raised upa standard, and we are here, having come through our tribulation. God has beenpurifying us, strengthening us, and equipping us with Divine audacity by the power ofAlmightiness--till we can say, "What shall we say then to these things?

5 Shall wedethrone what we know up to the present time has equipped us and brought usthrough? Shall we allow our hearts to fail us in the day of adversity?" No! - Online Christian Library which God has already strengthened and Weakness made strong!Corruption changed to purity! Knowing that the tribulation and the fire of God havepurified us, what shall we say to these things? These light afflictions are working forus a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

6 The New Creation People have been in meetings where the glory of God hasfallen and the expression of God has been upon everything; fortifications have beenmade in the body. The next morning the power of Satan has assailed, but the Son manifested the glory of the New already in our mortalbody. But, the flesh is a battleground for the enemy and is tested. That which God isforming is greater than the mortal body. The spirit, which is awakening into theglorious liberty of a Son of God, is greater.

7 From perfection to perfection, it is thisknowledge of what He has done--what shall we say? How shall we compare thiswith that which is to come? "The flesh profiteth nothing but the Spirit of the living worms destroy this body, I have another life greater than this life which shall look upon God-which shall see Him in His perfection--which shall behold Him in His glory--which shall be changedlike unto Him and be formed into Him."By the presence of God, a new creation, a glorious celestial shall so clothe usthat we shall be there in the presence of His likeness.

8 Knowing this, shall I give placeto the devil? Shall I fear? Shall I let my feelings change the experience of the Wordof God? Shall I trust in my fears? No! A million times, no! There has never beenany good thing in the flesh, but God has quickened the spirit till we live a new lifedivine over all time, and we are eternally shaped for shall we say? Are you going to let the past where God has wrought foryou bring you to a place of distress, or are you standing to your testing--"Now are we theSons of God.

9 " Are we remembering how God has answered our prayers, brought lightinto our home, delivered us from carnality and touched us when no power in theworld could avail? What shall we say? Can anything be brought against the elect ofGod? I know in Whom I have believed and I am persuaded that He, Who purposedus for God, will surely bring us to the place where we shall receive the Crown of Lifethrough the faith that God has given us. God is in you mightily, forming within youa new creation by the Spirit, to make you ready for the glory that shall be revealed said to me the other day, "I am in terrible trouble; a man is cursing me allthe time.

10 " If God be for us, who can be against us. God is never small in any of Hisblessings. He takes you into all He has, v. 33. "He that spared not His own Son, how shallHe not with Him freely give us all things." God has given us Jesus, the bosom of His love,the image of His Person, so perfect in brilliance, purity, righteousness and glory. Ihave seen Him many times and it always changes me. Your struggle is one of the - Online Christian Library things. Many needs have broken my heart, but I could say to the troubled one, God isgreater than your heart, greater than your circumstances, and greater than the thingthat holds you.